JCC Embrace The FU - Formerly the STAR WARS IS BAD thread

So this was my favorite episode yet.

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Rosario Dawson wanted this and has to be pleased. Everything Ahsoka does is spot on cool. I have a quibble with non-Force users being able to stand up to Force users in fights, though I wonder if a clue is given when she says not to underestimate the Magistrate, which is a line Yoda uses in warning about the Emperor, that she is indeed Force sensitive.

I liked Michael Biehn's role, lines, good work there.

I have to say they do something really cool visually with Mando, the shoulder pads plus the way the cape drapes, and here we have the gun draw waiting to happen.

I was not a Thrawn fa, and not a fan of Zahn's books at all, but I always would have liked a live action Thrawn appearance and here now we may have it.

 

I don't know if it's my computer's problem, but the initial scene is too dark. I can barely tell what's going on.

 

You know, I used to balk at the different levels of canon in Star Wars but guess what, now I balk at there not being different levels of canon.
Suddenly this show is at the level of the cartoon. Nice work Filoni.

 

THERE IS NO CLONE WAR IN THE TIMELINE. Half the stories in the conflict have been explicitly removed from canon. That story group is a goddamn ghost town.

 

It's not just the episode. It's not just the show. Star Wars will always revert to being bad.

 

Filoni is incapable of writing scripts, and I have no idea why they insist in trying.
Gosh, every single time I feel that the dialogues are clumsy, it always ends up being Filoni.
Also, they f-ed up the lighting in the whole episode, not just the first scene.

That said, Rosario Dawson works very well for me.

 

Before I saw this episode I didn't really even know

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how little interest I had in seeing a live action Ahsoka Tano.

Now I know. Thank you Star Wars. For those with enough patience, all questions will eventually be answered.

 

Looking for Thrawn. Doesn't really seem like a side quest or not directly related to rebuilding the Republic.

But agreed it will be very strange if there isn't eventually a Luke / Leia crossover with Ahsoka in a comic / novel / show.

 

Same reason that Jedi went into hiding instead of helping the Rebellion fight the Empire.

Because it was required for the story

 

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SHES NOT IN HIDING SHES LOOKING FOR THRAWN

 

The prisoners were so generic. Two random dudes, who got zero lines of dialogue. Here's your McGuffin, take it or leave it.
Are the creators allergic to story telling ?

 

You were saying the same for Solo.


EDIT = but if you want we can play the same game as before, in which you tell me that you have no issue with images like this one.

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You could be Lubezki for what I care, if I find it too dark no matter what device I'm using, there is no level of expertise that is going to change my mind.

 

It's not just me, they mentioned the issue in the appropriate thread without the need of me pointing it out, exactly as they did with Solo.

But ok, I won't say they ****-ed up, but rather that I hate their stylistic choice, which doesn't really change the substance of my critique.

 

Well, that amazing artwork known as the Sequel Trilogy stabilished the NR as a big time failure that got crushed by the First(or Final ?) Order. The capital planet got blown away, Luke never created a New Jedi Order, Han and Leia splited.
So Ahsoka being lost in some stupid mission makes all the sense according LucasFilm.

 

Because...

 

I was as an easy mark for that episode being a huge fan of TCW, but still I was impressed how well they managed to translate Ahsoka to the screen.

Probably my favorite episode of the series thus far.

And I have to say this one episode had more interesting and better staged lightsaber play than the whole of the sequel trilogy combined.

Obviously they equipped Mando with a weapon to aid him combatting Kidd Gideon.

Dug the whole damn thing.

 

Remember this show's background is 90% LED screens.
It's not exactly filmed on location or on a fully built set, where lighting can be rigged up to fill a big space, a lot of it is probably artificial lighting from the images on the screens.

 

Ashoka? Meh. The plot thins.